Old Period Ads

[Pete]

A mate of my son's once called a Mini in which we were travelling 'a bit gay' once, not sure he meant 'jolly' though !!

(little shit ! )

Hank Marvin looks happy with his anyway....

[Old English White]

Haha, words had different meanings then. Is anyone else old enough to remember the Hillman Minx being marketed with an optional "Gay Look" colour scheme? .

Life's hard enough for car salesman nowadays as it is - imagine having to sell THAT as a concept!

[Pete]

Don't think you'd get away with this now either.....

[mab01uk]

[zbarbera]

A mate of my son's once called a Mini in which we were travelling 'a bit gay' once, not sure he meant 'jolly' though !!

(little shit ! )

Hank Marvin looks happy with his anyway....

A friend and I were out in my father's 2008 Elise one day, with my dog (a Boston Terrier) and he pointed out that people were probably looking at us saying look at the 2 gay guys, in their gay car with their gay dog.

[Peter Laidler]

I see that you come from BOXFORD Zbarbera. Is that BOXFORD where all the lathes and milling machines were made? When I was an engineering apprentice in the early 60's, most of our lathes and millers were Boxfords as I rememjber and were all US LEND-LEASE wartime stuff. But after years of total abuse by us apprentices, they were still in good order

[zbarbera]

I see that you come from BOXFORD Zbarbera. Is that BOXFORD where all the lathes and milling machines were made? When I was an engineering apprentice in the early 60's, most of our lathes and millers were Boxfords as I rememjber and were all US LEND-LEASE wartime stuff. But after years of total abuse by us apprentices, they were still in good order

Can't be. The Boxford I live in is very rural. We have lots of trees, swamps and horses and very few businesses. A couple of general stores. One for the East Village and one for the West Village. A few farm stands, a pizza place, a daycare and a vet. Nearly no commercial zoning and a bylaw that states that every family home must sit on at least 2 acres of land (which shuts out condos and apartments). Yet we're less than 25 miles from Boston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxford,_Massachusetts

And, fun fact. The woman who took the first British soldier prisoner during the American Revolution is buried around the corner from me.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132 ... a-spofford

[rich@minispares.com]

And, fun fact. The woman who took the first British soldier prisoner during the American Revolution is buried around the corner from me.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132 ... a-spofford

admit it, who doesn't want to be pulled to the ground by a physically imposing women......

[Peter Laidler]

I should have looked it up before I asked!!! But US wartime Boxford machine tools in the UK are/were as common as Colchesters. Everyone learned on one!

[surfblue63]

Boxford Lathes were made in the UK at the Box Tree Mills, Wheatley, Halifax.

http://www.lathes.co.uk/boxford/

[Peter Laidler]

Yep, should have looked it up! Thanks Surfy. But a good connection...... Period ads to machine tools........

Back again..... Just spoke to one of my old ex apprentice pals and it wasn't Boxford lathes that we had as apprentices (although we did have some.....). The old lend-lease wartime lathes we used were SOUTH BEND lathes. Old age addles the memory cells

[zbarbera]

Boxford Lathes were made in the UK at the Box Tree Mills, Wheatley, Halifax.

http://www.lathes.co.uk/boxford/

I bought a Leyland dealer sticker from Boxford UK. Just because

For those of you who've never been here to New England, you'd feel right at home, every town, pretty much is named for a town in the UK. I grew up in Amesbury, MA. Not the one with Guinevere's convent...

[Peter Laidler]

Amesbury is pretty infamous here at the moment. It's where the couple found a bottle of perfume while sitting on a park bench. Apparently she sprayed a bit on her wrist, he took a sniff and............. The bad news was that it seems to have been the bottle of that novichock stuff.

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[Time Bandit]

I posted this before in a different thread but I may as well put it in here too since it's an old period advert...

[Peter Laidler]

That Tilling wind-up window conversion thing always puzzled the design people at the PSF plant at Swindon where they designed and initially made the doors. Apparently, according to Alan Iles one of the designers, PSF could only use the hinges on the doors (which hold the open doors up with friction don't forget) by making the doors as light(?) as they were. While there was room for winders and a mechanism, the hinges wouldn't cope and would eventually fail if any more weight were added. Mind you, even without a winder mech they used to fail after a few years. So the open structure doors with pockets was forced on them and they made it into a selling point. But PSF and BMC would never sanction all of that additional weight in the doors

[timmy201]

Here are a couple from some Aussie magazines:

[iain1967s]

Front and rear inside cover ads from my original 1966/67 Driver's handbook

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[Exminiman]

I want one !
Heath Robinson or what